Looks like your long plane (joiner?) is rift sawn, not quarter sawn.

I'm commenting to you as part of a community outreach. We are trying to help people or family members that may be struggling with sawmill addiction,croch figure,quartersawn lumber addiction,and fascination of medulary rays,including but not limited to walnut. Lol love the rant.

When do you find time to rest? Between being a father, all the work with the sawmill and your exceptional filming and editing; there’s still just 24 hours in the day. Thank you for the videos.

" this is a community outreach program, do you know anyone with an addiction ?" Yes me with these videos of a guy who saws wood for a living. 🇬🇧

Like your videos. You make the viewer feel like they are actually there.

7.4K+👍's up thanks for sharing this great video with us all

Wood and Trees are so majestic and marvellous

Just say I'm so glad you called, let's talk, click!

Amazing........... That wood was showing some great grain when you scrapped the dust of of it. But when you added the water, that's when the true beauty came out. Always a surprise how beautiful the lumber comes out.

one of the most underrated of the hardwoods right there. Pretty stuff!

Nice to see a Beech with its core. They are highly prone to being hollow and/or rotten in the middle. They can be mostly dead, and still somehow completely alive.

I am in Northeastern Ohio & we have a lot of beech grows naturally . It gets huge ! Loggers pass it up & I never heard why . This is first I ever seen it cut . Pretty Wood . Thank You .

I love Beech nuts. Got my initials carved in a tree 60 years ago. The tree is still there, I think. Usually, in our neck of the woods, Beech trees grow on reasonably rich soils. Lots of difficulty with rotten cores. Many Beech in our area grow as Wolf trees - alone an bushed out vs long, straight trunks. Yours is a sweet specimen. Thank you.

Oh my what pretty wood! I don’t know why I find a sawmill so relaxing….but I do. Thanks!

Heck of s good video Nathan. There was some excellent looking timber too. Cheers, Don from South Australia.

In the town where I grew up in South Central Kentucky, National Brush had a "brush handle" manufacturing plant. They only made wooden brush handles using BEECH exclusively. My dad was an electrical contractor and we did all of the electrical work. They made patterns for use on duplicating moulders. The moulders used high speed, high frequency motors driven by high frequency generators. All that kept us busy. Beech has very short dense grain & is super hard making it perfect for wooden brush handles. They had a on site ~10acre roofed stack yard and a dry kiln fired by scrap cuts, rejects, the dry shavings & sawdust. The factory is closed now. Brush handles are now made of PLASTIC. Over the years I witnessed ~Millions of BF of beech run through that factory. Blessed be the Beautiful Majestic BEECH. It bought a lot of groceries for our table.

Your filming and editing are outstanding! Beautiful videos!

Man I relate to this so much. My pap bought a LT40 in the late 90s. I grew up around the mill. Every summer. We'd go from farm and saw out a barn or to a log yard and charge them by the foot or saw it on half's. When I was 18 we sawed out the house pattern of the home I live in today. The first 16 floor joist we cut were literal 2x8s beech. I was bendin them 20 penny nails like they were made out of butter. That beech gets rock hard when it seasons out. Makes damn good safety blocks for workin on equipment. You won't see alot of big beech. Beech is notorious for rottin out holler. I've only heard it called elephant trees a couple times. I've heard people call them money trees though because the back of the leaves feel like paper money. Brings back memories. Packin them chains up the mountains. Them jar flies in the trees and it'd come a little rain and the sub come out and it'd get so hot and you'd be sweaty and sun burnt and the oil and saw dust stick to ya. Damn horse flies. Freeze jugs of water the night before and they'd thaw by noon. I still hear them cane hooks and that ol diesel turn over. Pap in that big straw hat. As hard as it was what I wouldn't give to go back to those days again. Great vid bud.

Beech is perfect for children's toys as it doesn't splinter.

I like it very good looking log

Beautiful wood. Thank you for showing the reward of these steps in making lumber.

Beautiful log and grain. Keep up the good work and unique lumber

Love to see black walnut and slippery elm

In Britain Beech was always the wood of choice for the seats of wooden chairs, because it is not prone to splitting. British beech has a crazy zig-zag grain.

_Love that smooth gray bark!_

We're paneling our house interior with home milled beech. We have to take out a few trees where the septic is going anyway and my wife likes the look better than the other woods we have available.

We use beech as fire wood - fantastic heat producer because it’s so dense. Not just full of water, it’s a dense wood like oak. Black bear love the beech nuts that the tree grows each year so it’s not uncommon to find years worth of bear claw marks “carved” into the bark of the tree. You’re not alone with the insurance calls lmao. Keep up the good work Nathan 💪🏼

I have never commented about content ect. of any site but, I accidentally found your site and I have to say its one I really enjoy watching. Very calming when you speak. I don't know a thing about sawing wood and do not need to learn but I thoroughly enjoy watching your channel. Thanks a bunch

Nathan! Since I discovered your channel like a year ago, I decided to start with your oldest content and work my way up while simultaneously watching new videos aa they post. This is the first video I think I’ve heard you use light profanity!!!! Those telemarketers really got to you 😂😂😂

This video depicts a very intelligent man who combines real quantitative logic, rational thinking of science physics mathematics and engineering and the qualitative, virtual, irrational emotions of artistic functions emanating from the color and texture of the sawn wood, while his vociferous power and diction in using the spoken symbols of the chosen language dialect and chosen words are to be admired. Sir, my congratulations. The different engineering functions on that machine in how they perform to ease one's energy requirement, it has a beauty of its own.

That's a beautiful grain 👍🇺🇸

Beech is a superb wood for runners in furniture.

Lovely superb Nice sawing

Beech is mostly used for furniture here in England. They are handsome trees.

Really like the way you explain what you are doing on the cuts.

"Why are you calling me on this number when my office at the Police Federation is where I take all business calls? Hello, hello? Oh, they rang off." Oooh look at that beech. We use beech a lot in Europe, it makes great furniture. Beech shelves are the bee's knees, that wood glows when sunlight strikes it and it looks like honey, lovely stuff.

“I’m gonna take a hostage!” I was rolling. I’m using that one from now on.

Beech hollows out bigly. I've got a primordial American Beech I'm my front yard, my hundred year old house was built around it but it's now topped out and most of the tree sized branches it's dropped ARE hollow. Wonderful 'sunburned caucasian' coloring. My wife has me cut branches into 18" lengths n uses them for planters. . .

Ya know what is crazy? I watch you cut up stuff and I have nothing to do with trees / sawmills / wood. Love some of the pretty wood nature makes.

It seems like anything you put on the mill turns out awesome

Had a huge beech tree in my family's woods. Everyone had their name on it

That is some Purdy old growth

Beautiful wood!

The red tones in beech are amazing. One of my favorites.

Here in Northern Germany beech is the most popular wood. The trunk is used for high quality furniture and the branches feed our stoves in winter time. And yes, we also carve love hearts in the soft bark :-)

Interesting. Thnx for sharing about the grain

Beech is a very hard wood...l have worked whit it in my shop making kitchen cabinets...That very shop that was struck by lighten and burned to the ground on a Sunday back in the 1970's....Thanks very much....Nice going...!

Old school sawyers call it ‘boxing the heart’. Smart way to produce high quality lumber.

Looks just like English beech wood by the look of the bark, finest wood for chisel handles, screwdriver handles rulers etc. very solid wood

Good looking wood!

That’s some purtty wood.

It’s amazing what a good feeling you get when the water is pored on the final cut

Nate, you sure do know your wood and saw cuts. Love that drone footage of your farm, AWESOME!👍👍

Video production is so well done! Love the music, details, etc. Interesting channel, keep up the excellent content!

Great channel. We used straight sawn beech for wooden drawers in our cabinet shop before 2008. It machined and finished beautifully. It was kiln dried and a cheaper b.f. cost that soft maple, our previous choice. I'd love to see how they have held up over the years, they were prettier than maple drawers; so much color and character. Thanks for the great videos. JC

Brother, I feel your pain! I just stopped answering the phone entirely if I don't recognize the number.

Beech is one of my favorite turning woods. Have a bunch in my truck right now! Great video...

I love Beech. I cuts, sands, machines well. Edge grain cutting boards or workbench tops look amazing. Face grain is often pretty plain.

I love Quarter sawn Beach! so pretty! so many posible uses!

In the UK they used to use a lot of Beech for making chairs and upholstered seating. The main reason is because Beech has good tacking qualities, when you tack down a piece of webbing with say five tacks, it's near impossible to pull it off by hand. A tack in Beech does not cut the fibers in the wood, it separates the fibers giving greater grip on the tack. Try it on Oak, Maple, Ash or any other hard woods and you will without doubt be able to pull the webbing off by hand. Now inspect the tack hole by planing down to the hole the tack made, you will see all the fibers have been cut by the point of the tack. This does not happen with Beech Each fiber strand acts like a mini vice on the tack. I have been a furniture maker for 55 years and that has included traditional upholstery.

Need a big concrete pond to dry all those trees like beech before the milling. Nothing beats an under water curing process.

Lovely log.

Beautiful wood. Beech's are some of my very favorite to climb.

Living in Pennsylvania I have the great pleasure of visiting Cook Forest in the Allegheny Forest region. It has some of the oldest virgin growth trees in that forest. Especially hardwoods like American Beech.

I loved that center cut it'd make an awesome table

Beech here in central Indiana growing up hollowed out by the time it was 10" in diameter. We cut some for firewood. It was a real booger to split by hand, maybe even worse than Osage Orange aka Hedge Apple. That is pretty Beech!

Wooden rulers too. Nice work.

I've never seen Beech milled before, really beautiful wood.

Ahhh, now im gonna saw some logs. I love that grain and color. Thanks

Great work!!!

Nice stuff. Looking to purchase mill. Been learning lots from you a Mike. Thanks brother 🙏

Around where I live. Which is in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I absolutely love beechwood. It’s a super hardwood and throws off a lot of heat.

Love the look of Beach, and yes it does look like Pine in the Grain

Gorgeous grain!!

High Quality wood if you treat it right and have patience. A furniture company near us has around 8 hectares of natural drying area. They slab logs and stack them for 2 years, then they have a steam pressure chamber to cook it and after that all the tension in the wood is gone and it doesn't crack anymore. Only after cooking, they kiln dry and use the wood for some really expensive but incredibly beautiful furniture. They also bend steam cooked wood to shape and make some amazing one piece curves and shapes from quite massive pieces of wood.

Perfect for making cutting boards with.. Beautiful !

Wow this is beautiful!

Dang, that's one sweet mill you got there.

You have a block caller mode on ur iPhone. Hope it helps. After hearing ur call, that’s exactly what block caller is intended

You've got some really nice slabs sir! Kind of a cooljob! I like learning this americana about our trees! Fascinating ! Good for fine furniture and artisan homebuilders etc! Cool accent! Good splaining southernstyle!

That is really beautiful wood. It's a shame that it is not used more frequently for something other than pulpwood!

Nathan, if you decide you don't want to use it for table tops, you should reach out to craftsmen who repair pianos, harpsichords, and pipe organs. Beech is one of the preferred woods for constructing the frames of these instruments and restorers are willing to pay top dollar for large straight grained (especially quarter sawn) beech lumber whether seasoned or green.

Very interesting grain. I will say you have incredible patience to wait up to 2 years for the lumber to be able to be workable 👍

Oh my god what a sweet saw mill!

My Modern Carpentry book from the mid 70's says of Beech- heavy, hard, strong- used for flooring, furniture, brush handles, food containers, boxes and crates.

I would love some of those boards...

Nathan, if you want some truly beautiful grain in a light colored wood, quarter saw some sycamore.

When I was a youngster the old sawyers always said Beech was full of sand and would ruin your milling blades so no one around us would cut it. I strongly suspect it was due to the interlocking grain and density of the wood dulling their blades. Nice looking wood, looks like it would finish out like glass.

music in this video, and all of your videos, is fantastic...

I was surprised to see a beech that size, when I first bought my property( before I had the mill ) there were some beech well over 30" but within 5 years the blight took over , now a 10" is maximum and it won't make 11" before the blight kills it. Years ago the Marlin company used beech for their rifle stocks, I think the blight is why they don't. Excellent video

My grandad used to talk about what he called sugar beech, they would cut trees like those into 8 foot logs and stand them up on end over a bed of sand and gravel. after 6 months they would "plank' them and and stand them for another 6 months. then those planks would get stick dried in a air kiln for another 6 months. After that they would stave them and thin strip them into about 4 quarter square dowels. They were used for barrels for railroad spikes and other things. He said they called them sugar beech cause as they stood water would come out the bottom and the sap was kinda sweet and attracted hornets and such.

Before I finish watching this video... I have robo-call solution that works for me... It takes some time to set up: First - record something like falling rain or, as in my case, static from the radio. Second - reduce the volume of the recording so it is not loud enough to disturb anyone. Third - select this as the default ringtone for all calls on your phone... you are now done with the fast part. Lastly... it will take some time to assign a normal/cool/personal/clever/individual ringtone to every person or group on your phone. When I hear the static, I do not even look... the person calling had better leave a compelling voicemail or their number goes into the Blocked Caller List.

Looks great for making both indoor & outdoor dining tables with.

Beautiful wood 🐶😺🌳🌲🌳🌲

Man, I got some beech on my property, some is getting ate by bugs. But that quatersawn beech is gold.

So beautiful - that beech.

I worked in a sawmill back in the 60s when I was in high school. 60 inch round blade driven by a 6 cylinder Chevy engine. I worked the back of the mill, unloading the scrape bark slabs and stacking the boards that were cut. My main job was making pallets. Oak was used and it was before air nailers, hand hammered pallet nails were used, they have a twisted shank. The only saving grace was the Oak was green! Anyway.....are there any species of trees that are not good to be quatersawn? I know white Oak is beautiful but others, is it worth it? I love your channel! The drone shots of where you live is beautiful. It looks like parts of Europe. Love from NW Colorado. Thanxz

That's beautiful wood man if I had tools like you I be making a old style office desk with the design and place for computer and fax and printing machine

Beech is what just about every stairway spindle, newel post and rail is made of. Incredibly stable, turns flawlessly, machines and mills just about finish smooth, and almost never, in any finished product, produces a sliver. Beech is rare also because it is a tree of a climax forest. Forests, depending upon latitude and climate, have a successive evolution of tree species. A Farmers field left to fallow, a huge burned area of forest,, the first species to claim the cleared ground will be various fast low brush,,, pines and afew hardwoods can get started in there,, the y gow in a couple hundred years to full height and then the leaf litter on the ground alters the Ph of the soils,, and then Beech can get started. A dense beech grove in Michigan represents a forest that may be a thousand years old,, minimum. Bech that have nice straight tall boles were grown in a deep tall forest. The trees grew to 60 and 80 feet tall smooth bole and not a side branch to finally break the crown of the forest,, and then add the girth that makes a good saw log. Field grown beech have major limbs from bottom to top,,,bottle brush shape,, and not terribly valuable,, except for pulp and firewood.

That is some beautiful wood...